Thoughts about the recent “Islamist” terrorists When Joseph Conrad wrote The Secret Agent in 1907, he used as the basis for his plot a real plot of 1894 to blow up the Royal Observatory, Greenwich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Agent#Background:_Greenwich_Bombing_of_1894 In 1920, Conrad wrote this about a discussion about that real event of 1894: “…we recalled the already old … Continue reading Terrorism and Reason